MLG CWL Atlanta 2017 is a Major LAN event for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

Overview

Format

Open Bracket

The Open Bracket will allow for 160 teams or more.

The open bracket will be double elimination. After losing a Match in the winners’ bracket, Teams will enter the losers bracket. A Match loss in the losers’ side of the bracket will result in elimination from the Tournament.

All rounds will be Best of 3 games.

When 4 Teams remain in the open winners’ bracket, they will be placed into pool play.

When 4 Teams remain in the open losers’ bracket, they will be placed in championship bracket losers round 1.

Seeding

Registered Teams will be seeded for the open bracket by their total CWL Pro Points as of 3:00 a.m. ET on Monday, February 6, 2017.

Incomplete Teams will be seeded last.

Teams that are completed after the open bracket is seeded will be seeded last, regardless of their CWL Pro Points.

Pool Play

Pool play will have 4 pools of 5 Teams.

All Matches will be Best of 5 games.

Teams will play one Match against each of the other Teams in their pool.

Teams finishing their pool in 1st and 2nd place will be placed in the championship winners’ bracket round 1. Teams finishing their pool in 3rd place will be placed in championship bracket losers’ round 3. Teams finishing their pool in 4th place will be placed in championship bracket losers’ round 2. Teams finishing their pool in 5th place will be placed in championship bracket losers’ round 1.

Seeding

Pools will consist of the Top 10 North American Teams and the Top 6 European Teams based on CWL Pro Points as of 3:00 a.m. ET on Monday, January 30th, 2017.

The #1 North American Team will be placed in pool A. The #1 European Team will be placed in pool B. The #2 North American Team will be placed in pool C. The #2 European Team will be placed in pool D. The #3-5 North American Teams and the #3 European Team will be randomly drawn, one into each pool. The #6-8 North American Teams and the #4 European Team will be randomly drawn, one into each pool. The #9-10 North American Teams and the #5-6 European Teams will be randomly drawn, one into each pool.

When drawing Teams into pools, a Team cannot be placed into a pool until all pools have an equal amount of Teams from their Region. If a Team is drawn into a pool that would break the aforementioned rule, the Team will be placed in the next eligible pool.

Pool play seeds will be determined after Teams have already been assigned to a pool. These seeds will be determined by draw order and snake seeding.

A pool play Team’s seed is used to govern side choices and main stage seating.

The final 4 open winners’ bracket Teams will be seeded #17-20 for pool play based on their open bracket seed.

The #17th seed will be added to pool A, #18th seed will be added to pool B, #19th seed will be added to pool C, and #20th seed will be added to pool D.

Rankings and Tiebreakers

Pool play ranking (1st – 5th) will be determined using each Team’s record of Matches won and lost.

Pool play standings ties will be broken using head to head Match winning percentage (pool play Matches won vs. tied Teams / pool play Matches played vs. tied Teams).

If head to head Match winning percentage can’t break a tie, head to head game winner percentage (pool play games won vs. tied Teams / pool play games played vs. tied teams) will be used to break the tie.

If head to head game winning percentage can’t break a tie, overall game winning percentage (pool play games won / pool play games played) will be used to break the tie.

The higher number will win all the aforementioned tiebreakers.

If the aforementioned tiebreakers can’t break a tie for 3rd place, the tie will be broken by pool play seed with the higher seed winning the tiebreaker. The highest seed is 1.

If the aforementioned tiebreakers can’t break a tie for 1st place or 2nd place, the tied Teams will be scheduled to play a best of 1 game round robin tiebreaker. The tiebreaker game mode will be Search and Destroy. After each Team has played all other tied Teams in the tiebreaker game type, their records of games won and games lost will be used to break the tie. If there is still a tie that can’t be broken by the tiebreakers, an additional best of 1 game round robin tiebreaker(s) will be played until the tie can be broken.

If there is a tie involving more than two Teams and a tiebreaker resolved the tie for a Team(s), but leaves at least two Teams tied, the tie(s) that remains will be broken by starting over with the head to head match winning percentage tiebreaker.

Replacement Teams

If a pool play Team chooses not to participate in the Tournament and notifies the Administration prior to the start of the Tournament, the Administration reserves the right to replace the Team with a Team of their choice.

If a pool play Team chooses not to participate in the Tournament and notifies the Administration after the start of the Tournament, a replacement Team will not be selected to take their place.

If a replacement Team is needed for pool play and all pools have been set, the replacement Team will be given the #16th seed and will be assigned to the same pool as the Team they have replaced. As a result, other pool play Teams may see their seed change. However, all other pool play Teams will keep their pool assignment.

Championship Bracket

Championship bracket will be double elimination.

All Matches will be best of 5 games.

Championship bracket winners’ bracket will be conducted as follows:

Round 1 Match #1 = Pool A 1st place vs Pool C 2nd place

Round 1 Match #2 = Pool D 1st place vs Pool B 2nd place

Round 1 Match #3 = Pool C 1st place vs Pool A 2nd place

Round 1 Match #4 = Pool B 1st place vs Pool D 2nd place

Semifinal #1 = round 1 Match #1 winner vs round 1 Match #2 winner

Semifinal #2 =round 1 Match #3 winner vs round 1 Match #4 winner

Final = semifinal #1 winner vs semifinal #2 winner

After losing a Match in the championship winners’ bracket, Teams will enter the championship losers bracket. A Match loss in the championship losers’ bracket or the grand final will result in elimination from the Tournament.

When one Team remains in both the championship winners’ bracket and the championship losers’ bracket those Teams will compete against each other in the grand final.

The grand final will begin with an initial Match. If the winners’ bracket Team wins the initial Match, they will win the tournament.

If the losers’ bracket Team wins the initial Match, a second Match must be played. The winner of the second Match will win the Tournament.

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